Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry A. D. Melvin informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Dr. F. C. Bigelow tested four cows for tuberculosis at the Carlisle Indian School and found one to be infected. Melvin requests that the infected animal be slaughtered in Harrisburg.
Acting Commissioner C. F. Hauke orders Superintendent…
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Agnes Bartholomeau and Edith Rainey.
This material includes correspondence between Superintendent Moses Friedman and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning accusations made by John Jackson. Jackson blamed Annie and Jean Richards for his allegations, which he recanted.
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman provides a list of appropriations needed for running the school for 1913 and requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs sends him a statement of warehouse invoices and explains why he changed a certain fund.
Chief of the Finance Division H. Dimick provides Friedman with his…
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Emily Hardt Floyd to have her brother Edward Paul Bauer enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Floyd's request was denied as Bauer lived in a city and had access to local public schools.
These materials include correspondence concerning the account balances of three pupils; William Waupoose, James Welch, and Leslie James.
These materials include a typed and hand-written copy of a letter from J. F. Murray, praising the Carlisle Indian School. Murray discusses numerous topics, including Carlisle's assimilationist mission, appropriations and finances, discipline, local reactions to the school, and the school's management.
These materials include correspondence concerning Mollie Mantel's request to access her entire account balance in preparation for her marriage to Alfred LaMont.
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $350 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1913" account on water supply for domestic purposes. Friedman later submits copies of a previous contract for light and water supply and requests that the contract for fiscal year 1914 is approved.
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Pauline Peazzoni at the Pennsylvania State Sanatorium at Monto Alto.
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $700 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1914" account for water supply for domestic purposes for fiscal year 1914. He later corrects that the rate should be $0.03.33 per 1,000 gallons.
A month later, Friedman forwards the same request. First Assistant…
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to reinstate an evening study hour two nights a week in which students will do homework in the academic classrooms. In years past, it was four nights a week in the classroom, but last year it changed to four nights a week in the dormitories, which Friedman doesn't find to be as…
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards a Requisition for Funds for the first quarter of 1914 and asks that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs immediately pays the salaries of Friedman's employees.
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to modify several expenditures paid for by the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1913" appropriation. The Chief of the Education Division requests that two expenditures totaling $120.08 from the previously named fund be switched to the support fund. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke modifies…
Oscar H. Lipps forwards a number of questions for the disbursement of the Athletic Fund following the investigation into Moses Friedman including paying for a lacrosse coach as well as building a new grandstand.
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Henry Buffalo.
These materials include correspondence regarding mulitple requests from Alex Cole and Mary Ann Cole to have their daughter, Annie B. Cole, returned home from the Carlisle Indian School.
Superintendent Moses Friedman transmits articles of agreement with A. P. Henderson and J. Webster Henderson for the school to rent the Henderson tract.
Representative Thomas J. Soully forwards a letter from James M. Ziegler to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Acting Commissioner Cato Sells forwards Soully's and Ziegler's letters to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman and explains that Ziegler is looking to be a host for a female student on outing.
Friedman…
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to expend $50.00 from the "Purchase & Transportation Indian Supplies, 1914" appropriation to pay for express freight charges on shipments far from Carlisle. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells asks Friedman what he needs the money for. Friedman responds that it is to pay for shipping of emergency…
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Joseph Chief Eagle to return to his home on the Pine Ridge Reservation from his outing home in Tullytown, Pennsylvania.
Moses Friedman requests to expend $50.00 for general school purposes from each of three appropriations: "Miscellaneous Receipts, Class IV," "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1914 - Lavatories and Bathing Facilities," and "Indian School Transportation, 1914." Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs Friedman that he doesn't…
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests authorization to spend $400 for fiscal year 1914 in order to pay the lease of the Henderson Tract, which is used for "pasturage."
These materials include correspondence concerning the settling and closing of financial accounts for James Bearchild.
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Leo C. White to return to the Carlisle Indian School so that he could continue his education at the Dickinson College Preparatory School (Conway Hall) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.